INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.
' 150 DEATHS IN FIVE DAYS. ■ NO SIGN OF ABATEMENT. Deceived 13, 7.5 pinMelbourne, Feb. 13. There were nine deaths yesterday. All licensed premises closed to-day. The Superintendent of the .Melbourne Hospital states that the epidemic shows no signs of abatement. He considers the Board of Health figures of the death rate are inaccurate. During the past five, days there have been 150 deaths, which is six times tho rate they estimate. THE MASK REGULATIONS MOD). FIED. Sydney, Feb- 13. Cabinet has decided to modify the regulations respecting the wearing of masts, permitting their discarding in open spaces where no crowds congregate, also allowing open air church services and meetings. The other restrictions are unchanged. A SEVERE TYPE IN LONDON. London, Feb. 11. ' There is a marked increase in the severe type of influonza-pneun'.nnu in London, which is attributed by medical men to exposure in the traffic queues during the strike. Cold weather continues, averaging 15 to 32 degrees of frost throughout the Kingdom.—Times.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1919, Page 5
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165INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1919, Page 5
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